Thanks to all for the help, and advice with this. I ended up restoring my one month old OS back up. I agree with Greg that even if you think you killed a Trojan you can never really feel comfortable about it. My OS is on a separate SSD, all my Data, and email is on an Truecrypt drives which are located on another drive, so recovery was pretty straight forward.

Something I do for housekeeping purposes paid off. I run a ram drive for my temp folder. The virus was using that temp drive to download all it's evil programs into which is why after a reboot things were normal again,... for a little while.

Once I realized this, I disconnected from the internet, and rebooted. Restoring the OS got the virus itself. I was concerned, and watchful that the virus might have been on some other drive, but so far all is well. I am not doing anything that is high risk so I probably got it from something in flash. I back my data up every night and save two weeks worth of backups, but now I think I will go back to weekly OS backups as well. There is nothing easier then a OS restore to solve a software problem like this in a hurry.

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At 07:04 AM 5/24/2011, you wrote:
Also,

These virus's often attach themselves to a random file in
C:\windows\System32\Drivers\

You'll need to make sure you clean that file.


Christopher Fisk

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